287,580 Votes Recounted But No Races Changed

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November 10, 1996

SALT LAKE CITY — A recount of 287,580 votes cast on faulty ballots in Salt Lake County took about 15 hours, but the outcomes of more than 30 elections in the county were unchanged. More than 100 election workers used their fingernails and tweezers in the recount that ended Saturday. It was ordered after officials discovered some ballots were not fully punched through when voters poked them with a stylus. As a result, the scanner used to read the ballots did not record their votes.